CLERICAL PRESENCE IN CONTEMPORARY PARISH AND MONASTERY EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AS EMBODIMENT OF EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH TRADITION AND UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES
CLERICAL PRESENCE IN CONTEMPORARY PARISH AND MONASTERY EDUCATION OF CHILDREN AND YOUTH AS EMBODIMENT OF EASTERN ORTHODOX CHRISTIAN CHURCH TRADITION AND UNIVERSAL HUMAN VALUES

Author(s): Andrian Aleksandrov
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Education
Published by: Editura Eikon
Keywords: Theological Training; Church Vocation; Homiletics; Cathecetics; Value Education
Summary/Abstract: Presence of several generations of clergy and theologians in educational units and initiatives organised, run, and hosted by Eastern Orthodox Christian parishes, monasteries, and spiritual centres is basic factor of development of church subcultures according to tradition, but in contemporary manner. Church sharing soundly state and public responsibility of education youth in confessional and universal values recently depends on the way clergy would adequately and creatively combine civic environment, resources, and sometimes even team and flock, culturally distanced from church ethos, with personal and collective value of theological mystic vocation to embody divine image and reality, and mission to announce Heavenly Kingdom and lead community to salvation with perspective of eternal life. Therefore this study is exploring in qualitative methods of direct and indirect observation, community development from post-communist and post-modern prevention of youth from church life that was unfavourable to join, through an intermediate folk attitude of socialisation, to a kind of responsibility and inclusion reappearing nowadays.

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